Meet the Cops Running the NYPD’s 86-Member PR Team
nysfocus.com
DCPI has more than doubled in size in the past two years. Some of its recent hires have histories of dishonesty and misconduct.

In a statement, Brooklyn Councilmember Lincoln Restler pointed to the contrast between the dcpi’s staffing surge and Mayor Eric Adams’s cuts to other city services, including hundreds of layoffs in the Department of Buildings. “It’s stunning to see the nypd Communications Department more than double to 86 staff while so many of our City agencies are struggling to fulfill their mandates without workers.”

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  • stanleytweedle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    6 months ago

    Some of those Sheppard hired from his precinct to dcpi have checkered records. A detective who transferred to public information from the 28th Precinct was part of a wrongful arrest lawsuit that ended in a $30,000 settlement, according to information compiled by 50-a.org. One of Sheppard’s lieutenants at the precinct, Theodore Wells, repeatedly failed to deposit money found on arrestees, lied during a department interview, and covered up a use of force, including by keeping his body camera off. Wells was promoted to captain in February, and transferred to dcpi in March. And in 2021, the city’s civilian oversight board substantiated physical force charges against Sheppard himself. During a June 2020 Black Lives Matter protest, Sheppard tackled a demonstrator, pinned her to the ground, and tased her. nypd brass intervened in the case after it went to the Civilian Complaint Review Board, and Sheppard went undisciplined. The victim later took Sheppard and other officers to court, winning a $99,000 settlement, per 50-a.org.

    ‘Checkered’ lol. Any other professional with this kind of fuckery on public record would be unemployable.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
        9·
        6 months ago

        And yet those people get to go on TV and they’re never challenged on their personal behaviour. Call peaceful protestors terrorists with a history like that.